The Transformational Type of Leadership and Commitment of Employees

Seminar paper from the year 2024 in the subject Leadership and Human Resources - Management Styles, language: English, abstract: This paper addresses the relationship between transformational leadership and commitment of employees. The paper focuses on ascertaining the extent to which dimensions such as individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation and idealized influence impact on employee outcomes such as affective, normative and continuance commitment. The paper reveled that the dimensions of transformational leadership - individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation and idealized have significantly contributed toward outcomes of commitment of employees such as affective, normative and continuance commitment. Following the outcome of the discussion of the paper, it was concluded that transformational leadership enables work features that effectively motivate and drive the commitment levels of workers. It is recommended that related actions and efforts of the management are channelled toward building and reinforcing transformational leadership practices within the workplace, bridging and enriching the relationship between employers and their subordinates.